Personal schedule for Ian Kallen

JRuby is Ruby on the Java Platform, so it brings the advantages of Ruby to the JVM and the advantages of Java to Ruby. This session shows Ruby syntax and lots of integration techniques with Java, including building Swing-based UI's using Swiby and how to unit test Java code with JRuby.
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Few applications are architecturally simple. As soon as you grow, you find yourself using multiple subsystems and machines to scale, creating new headaches in configuration management. Help is at hand! This tutorial introduces Chef, a modern Ruby-based open source approach to systems integration. Chef lets you manage your servers by writing code, not running commands.
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Apache CouchDB can serve complete web apps, without a middle-tier application server. Because these apps can be deployed to any running CouchDB node (including user's local machines), they present potential for end-user innovation, but because of view source but also through peer based replication. We'll learn to use the CouchApp JavaScript and HTML framework to build sharable applications.
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Jabber/XMPP technologies are the gold standard for real-time messaging, presence, and collaboration over the Internet. This interactive tutorial provides a fast-paced introduction to XMPP, including many practical guidelines and "gotchas" that will help you get off to a fast start with XMPP-based software projects.
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Practical Erlang Programming covers the basic, sequential and concurrent aspects of the Erlang programming language. You will learn the basics of how to read, write and structure Erlang programs. The target audience are software developers and engineers with an interest in server side applications and massively concurrent systems. The perquisites are basic programming knowledge.
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The GeoDjango project provides a set of extensions to the python Django framework that allows for the easy and rapid development of spatially enabled applications. Using GeoDjango's model-driven design methods, PostGIS's spatial database extensions to PostgreSQL, and OpenLayers, we will explain and demonstrate how to build powerful spatially enabled applications.
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There's plenty of material (documentation, blogs, books) out there that'll help you write a site using Django... but then what? You've still got to test, deploy, monitor, and tune the site; failure at deployment time means all your beautiful code is for naught. This tutorial examines how best to cope when the Real World intrudes on your carefully designed website.
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Monitoring systems to collect metrics is systems administration 101. However, systems are more complicated, there are more metrics and correlation is a must to troubleshoot problems or plan for growth. As our problem got bigger, our tools didn't get better. Reconnoiter is a large-scale monitoring and trend analysis system designed to nip these problems in the bud.
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The iPhone and the Cucumber test framework have something in common, besides the adoration of geeks. They're both designed to get out of your way, so you can think about the task at hand. So it's only natural that we'd want to use our favorite framework to drive apps on our favorite phone.
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Software programming has come a long way for students and younger children since the days of Logo. Syntax has been replaced with connecting blocks and the triangle turtle has been replaced with custom artwork children create themselves. Now, multi-threading and event processing are easier to teach children than functions, and this session discusses these ideas as well as so the edge of kid code.
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Come learn the fundamentals of how to leverage Gearman, the open-source, distributed job queuing system. Originally designed to scale LiveJournal.com, Gearman is now faster than ever and can help you build your own scalable applications. Gearman's generic design allows it to be used as a building block for almost any use - from speeding up your website to building your own Map/Reduce cluster.
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A pervasive elitism hovers in the background of collaborative software development: everyone secretly wants to be seen as a genius. In this talk, we discuss how to avoid this trap and gracefully exchange personal ego for personal growth and super-charged collaboration. We'll also examine how software tools affect social behaviors, and how to successfully manage the growth of new ideas.
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Sphinx Full Text search engine became increasingly popular over years powering search for number of Alexa 100 sites as Craigslist and NetLog. Sphinx combines powerful full text search features with ease of use and high performance. Being specially designed for indexing database content it is natural fit for modern database powered web sites.
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Windmill is the best-integrated solution for Web test development and its success is largely due to its involved Open Source Community. This talk will get you writing and running automated tests and show off some of the most useful built-in tools for debugging and continuous integration.
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The true power of cloud APIs lies not in their functional capabilities (albeit important), but their ability to foster and support a rich and diverse set of cloud tools and applications. What cloud API characteristics help accomplish that and what’s it like to develop against them?
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Git is a distributed version control system with easy branching that has forever changed the way that open source projects accept contributions. By embracing a pattern of casual forking, the barrier to submit patches and track upstream changes is reduced, resulting in an explosion of contributors and patches. This talk will use case studies to illustrate how your project can enjoy these benefits.
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Using JRuby, apps created with Ruby frameworks like Rails or Merb can now be deployed to Google's highly scalable infrastructure. This talk, will provide an overview of App Engine, with attention to current features and apis. We will also show some demos, including deployment to the production environment, and provide some insight into (and best practices for) using the App Engine Datastore.
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Varnish is a application level reverse proxy for HTTP. Written with performance in mind it incorporates some advanced features to stretch the kernel as far as possible. Wikia relies heavily on varnish to serve a peak traffic of close to a gigabit/sec out of 3 different datacenters. Each one with two Varnishes working as a pair serving thousands of requests a second.
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We will present Eucalyptus -- Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for
Linking Your Programs to Useful Systems -- an open source software
infrastructure that implements IaaS-style cloud computing.
The goal of Eucalyptus is to allow sites with existing clusters and server
infrastructure to host an elastic computing service that
is interface-compatible with Amazon's AWS.
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This talk will introduce Erlang, expanding on what the hype is all about. It will provide a high level technical overview, looking at its concurrency model and distribution models, software upgrade during runtime and scalability on multicore. It will describe its ever expanding community and domains of use, with examples on open source applications, commercial products and research projects
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A graph db stores data in a network structure rather than in relational tables. This model is well suited for many web use cases such as tagging, metadata annotations, social networks, wikis and other network-shaped or hierarchical data sets. This talk will introduce Neo4j: a high-performance, transactional open source graph db, which frequently outperforms RDBMSs with >1000x for such use cases.
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PostgreSQL 8.4 is the first Open Source database management system to handle trees and lists using SQL:2008-compliant Common Table Expressions and Windowing functions. You'll learn how these work, see intriguing examples, and walk out ready to use them to your advantage.
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This talk will discuss the on going effort to standardize the interfaces into the cloud. Currently every cloud provider has a unique, proprietary, API for consuming the services they offer. The Cloud Computing Interoperability movement aims to provide standards that will overcome vendor lock-in, benefit the consumers, and allow the cloud ecosystem to grow transparently.
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We have embarked on a mission to share more of what we do on the development side of The Times. So far, we’ve done that via conference presentations, open-source software, blog posts and (most recently and probably most importantly) our APIs. We see our site as more than just a source of news and information: it’s a platform on which news and information become building blocks.
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